Criterion creative boss Craig Sullivan’s explained the reasoning for removing the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo, saying the exercise was to ensure the studio could provide a suitable “service” to buyers, and that it was necessary to end the test to enable to full game’s online hardware.

The Need for Speed series was in trouble a year and a half ago. “They were losing quality, repetitive and EA were beating up the franchise and losing consumer interest in the brand,” says Patrick Söderlund, Senior VP of EA Europe. Something had to change. Let’s face it, racers are a dime a dozen, especially […]

As well as the obvious inclusions to the store, like the RDR DLC and NFS: Hot Pursuit demo, the EU PS store update’s thrown up four demos and a couple of new games, including the PSP version of PES 2011.